Long Time Coming
Citizen Gardener came into existence on a lark. Its main purpose was to share the experience of moving towards a more sustainable and localized food system but it also served as an outlet for my writing which, despite the efforts of primary education English teachers, remains enjoyable. Still, as important as the need for a new food paradigm is to me, I found that writing about it exclusively was too limiting, hence the lack of updates. Moving forward Citizen Gardener will be open to address and discuss a broader range of topics though most will still be related to sustainability. In the interim, I’d like to do a little bit of quick catching up on the gardening activities. 2010 was a banner year. A Face Book photo album of the year’s events can be viewed here . The garden was amazingly productive and provided the lion share of our seasonal vegetables. I even like to boast that it provided all (or nearly so) of what my second gra...